Council surprise - there is other water ...
What a surprise.
Contrary to Council's scare tactics for the past 10 months to rally support for their controversial recycled sewage project, there is sufficient water for Toowoomba to draw on for a number of years.
From the Courier Mail:
Fresh water source
By Amanda Gearing
20 April 2006
TOOWOOMBA City Council has identified enough underground water to provide 80 per cent of the city's water supply even if the drought continues until 2009.
In a meeting yesterday, councillors were told the city's water supply could be guaranteed to 2009 without reliance on the controversial sewage-to-tap drinking water proposal.
Underground water from the Great Artesian Basin, local basalt bores and bores at nearby Geham, will provide an additional 6725Ml of water each year and will begin coming on stream in six months' time.
The additional underground water will provide almost 2000Ml/year more water than the council's proposed $68 million sewage-to-tap recycling plan.
See - Water found to survive for years.
The Toowoomba City Council and its councillors should be ashamed at the fraud they have perpetrated on Toowoomba citizens.
To have engaged in a scare campaign for the past 10 months - adopt our recycled sewage proposal or we'll run out of water - was completely misleading and dishonest.
It has been necessary for the Council to be dragged kicking and screaming to admit to the community what we suspected - that Council's Water Futures strategy was a lie.
Remember that when it comes time to vote ...
posted by Concerned Ratepayer at 8:38 AM
6 Comments:
This is not the only lie, the people have to start asking the hard questions. What about the other options. The Norwin bore water and the Chinchilla gas water.
These were deemed not safe at first now they say that it is, JUST TOO EXPENCIVE.
What price do we put on safe sustainable water.
5:39 AM, April 20, 2006
This groundwater will be replenished significantly by any rain and seepage from our dams so it will last much longer then what TCC predicts, in fact this could be a pernmanent good supply of fresh water when the drought breaks. They will lie to us about it though just to try and get us to vote yes to there recycled effluent plan.
10:48 AM, April 20, 2006
If we could only see the video produced by the Council then we would see just how many lies that they are prepared to tell to convince the people into having recycled sewage water.
We are on to them and we will just say NO!!
1:42 PM, April 20, 2006
We knew they were hiding the real story - there is water out there that can be used. How can council get away with misleading people like this?
2:55 PM, April 20, 2006
If you don't believe the Council has been totally honest with the community through its Water Futures proposals, just say NO.
3:00 PM, April 20, 2006
God don't you just love the scare tactics?? they go on as if it is never going too rain again.
7:54 PM, April 20, 2006
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